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Live-Action Black Butler Gets Blu-ray Release in the U.K.


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mdo7



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PostPosted: Tue Jan 13, 2015 12:05 am Reply with quote
Sheleigha wrote:
mdo7 wrote:

But again I don't know why Europe and Australian are picking these up (along with Korean films and other Asian cinema), while North America is stuck picking up other non-Japanese Asian cinemas.


Yeah I often see various Asian movies making the market, although it's a market I'm unfamiliar with, so I'm unsure on details on it. I'm just surprised that big anime here such, as Black Butler and Rurouni Kenshin, wouldn't have their live-action movies make it here. I figured that (especially with Kenshin), that they would be big enough to warrant these movies to be brought over.


Well I don't want to derail the topic any further but I have numerous issues with how Japan is not taking the international market beyond anime and manga (which you can read but scroll down a bit to see my issues and I pointed out with lots of evidence). I think you'll understand more clearly what I'm talking about when you read it.
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kevinx59



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PostPosted: Tue Jan 13, 2015 4:01 am Reply with quote
pachy_boy wrote:

Especially since it's region-free! And for Rurouni Kenshin fans who aren't in the know, the UK steelbook blu-rays for the first movie and upcoming second movie are also region-free! Why it's arranged that way, I don't know, but it makes even me wish it happens more often.
Is Kenshin also being released in the UK by Warner? Because i don't know about in the UK but over here in the US all (or almost all) of Warners' blu-rays are region free. Same for the most part with Universal, Paramount and Disney. Sony and Lionsgate vary, and Fox are all region locked. Anyways this is interesting news, although I don't have much interest in this movie.
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pachy_boy



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PostPosted: Tue Jan 13, 2015 8:38 am Reply with quote
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Is Kenshin also being released in the UK by Warner?

Yes, and now I'm starting to understand that the region-free deal may well be a Warner thing.
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